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Direct linkAnnie S. Mendenhall – Journal of Basic Writing, 2023
This essay describes Open Admissions in the South during postsecondary desegregation, providing a comparative analysis of policies and debates in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Georgia. Statewide Open Admissions policies emerged in the 1960s as part of superficial efforts to comply with desegregation but were ineffective; consequently, they were…
Descriptors: Open Enrollment, Postsecondary Education, School Desegregation, Educational History
Stuart, Reginald – New South, 1971
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Segregation, Court Litigation, Enrollment
Days III, Drew S. – 1978
The author of this speech discusses racial dualism in higher education in the American South. The states of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana have all had suits brought against them for maintaining separate and unequal institutions for blacks and whites. In all three states, the vast proportion of funds allocated for higher education have been…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, Black Education, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedDavis, Ellen B. – Journal of Law and Education, 1993
In 1977, a federal court ordered the merger of the University of Tennessee in Nashville (UT-N) and Tennessee State University (TSU), a historically black public institution in Nashville. A study of 15 years of effort reveals that the merger did not alter the role of TSU as an institution essentially black in character and mission. (MLF)
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Education, Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Days, Drew S. – 1978
Concern has grown among black educators about government litigation and administrative proceedings involving state systems of higher education as they relate to equality of educational opportunity. Properly prepared and presented to the courts, these cases can enhance equal educational opportunities by eliminating the continuing effects of past…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Colleges, Blacks, Court Litigation
Blumstein, James F. – 1981
The application of constitutional principles of desegregation, derived from the context of primary and secondary education, to the postsecondary education setting, is addressed in the second of eight reports from the Postsecondary Desegregation Project at Vanderbilt University. The role of the U.S. Department of Education in enforcing the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, College Desegregation, Compliance (Legal)
Kurian, George T., Ed. – 1988
An annual report of the conditions of higher education in the United States for 1986-1987 is presented. The 16 sub-sections are as follows: (1) introduction; (2) principal sectors of higher education (four papers, on research universities, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and state colleges); (3) issues (15 papers, e.g. academic…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges
